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Posted by Scott Rogers on July 5th, 2006Hard rock mining in the West was dangerous. It was more dangerous than any other occupation. A miner’s life was not worth much to the mine owners and it was commonly said that miners were cheaper than timber. Danger existed in any task — a carelessly swung hammer, lack of timber or a poorly placed timber, a poorly loaded charge. Probably the most dangerous aspect of mining was silicosis.
Americans and Chinese were experts in placer mining (above ground), but most lacked the expertise to be hard rock miners. The mining companies always sought out the miners with hard …
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Posted by Scott Rogers on April 4th, 2006In 1886, forty year old Barney Martin a friendly and well liked stage agent and owner of a general store was forced to sell his store and his ranch in Stanton (formerly knows as Antelope Springs) by Charles B. Stanton, a corrupt and vicious man. Barney, his 32 year old wife Rosie and their two sons, John 13 and William 10 loaded their personnel belongs into a wagon and left on the stage road to Phoenix. Barney’s intentions were to send his wife and children back east to stay with her parents while he would return to Stanton to …
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Posted by Scott Rogers on March 23rd, 2006In 1862 the brothers William and Isaac Bradshaw along with William Warringer, sought and received a 20 year exclusive contract from Arizona’s first territorial legislature for a ferry service across the Colorado River between Providence Point, California and Olive City in Arizona. William Bradshaw’s brother Isaac, ran the ferry most of the time, while William went to the Weaver Mining District in Arizona and spent his time prospecting and exploring. William died in 1864, later that year the Silver Mountains were renamed the Bradshaw Mountains.
In 1867 Isaac Bradshaw got gold fever so he sold his interest in the …
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Posted by Scott Rogers on March 3rd, 2006Constellation Road was built as a road to service the mining Districts of Black Rock, Morgan Butte and Sam Powell. Around 1890 an old stagecoach driver by the name of Ed Devenny started a stage service from Wickenburg to the town of Constellation. Ed was a famous Western stagecoach driver. The days of the Concord stage were over and since he had spent most of his life looking at the East end of a West bound horse, he opted to finish out his days driving horses. He would leave Wickenburg every morning driving a buckboard mail stage and return …
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Posted by Scott Rogers on February 6th, 2006The Anderson Mill was run by two brothers. At the start of World War II all of the mines and mills that were not essential to the war effort were ordered closed. Anderson Mill and the mines supplying it were allowed to continue.
The Anderson Mill
The mill was for obtaining muscovite mica. As part of the mining of the granite pegmatites other minerals were at times selectively hand cobbed and shipped. The mica produced was used as electrical and heat insulation as well as in joint compound and paint.
The mill was last operated in 1951 and …
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